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“Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.”

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Author:Julie Delpy

“Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.”

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Author:Chris Wyse

“The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just feel it. And it's all about the atmosphere, the people around you, you know, everything. You got to be clear headed in that and have a perfect atmosphere.”

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Author:French Montana

“As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but when you're writing a song sometimes it'll be a very visual song.”

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Author:Luke Hemmings

“My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to write a novel that shows the points of view of people of different ages and personalities.”

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Author:Kathleen Winter

“When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influenced by this - I went from a more heavy punk rock style to straight up sugary-sweet pop.”

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Author:Alex Goot

“I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.”

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Author:Sefi Atta

“I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.”

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Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.”

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Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.”

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Author:Olivia Wilde

“What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.”

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Author:Andre Dubus

“Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.”

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Book:The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

Source: The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

“If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.”

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Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.”

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Author:Philip Roth

“My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.”

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Author:Douglas Coupland

“I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.”

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Author:Beth Orton

“The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.”

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Author:Bob Shacochis

“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.”

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Author:Andrew Bird

“Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.”

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Author:Conor McPherson

“I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there.”

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Author:Bernard Fanning

“The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.”

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Author:Pawel Pawlikowski

“I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live From Daryl's House, we really get inside their music which gives me an even broader idea of the writing process. I think I'm always learning from everything in life. There are really songs everywhere.”

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Author:Eliot Lewis

“Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.”

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Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.”

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Author:Fernando Torres

“It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and building when you add the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals until you finally reach the finished song other people can enjoy.”

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Author:Manika

“I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.”

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Author:Joshua Mohr

“The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.”

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Author:Emily Haines

“What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.”

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Author:Annie E. Clark

“I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.”

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Author:Bridgit Mendler

“The recording process was basically me meeting with different writers, going into their studio, starting a song and just hanging out and chatting and getting to know how they work. Everybody has a different writing process so there was a lot of getting to know people, which can be fun and stressful at the same time.”

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Author:Bridgit Mendler

“It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.”

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Author:Lauren Mayberry

“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”

“What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.”

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Author:David Morse

“To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.”

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Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.”

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Author:Charles R. Morris

“I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.”

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Author:Karen Abbott

“My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.”

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

“Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.”

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Author:Mpho Koaho

“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).”

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Author:Teddy Wayne

“My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.”

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Author:Ann Patchett

“I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.”

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Author:Sharon Cameron

“I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.”

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Author:Megan Chance

“I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.”

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Author:Vivek Shraya

“I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.”

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Author:Morgan Parker

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